The company overhauled its operating system with a radically different, tile-based interface that is easier to navigate on touch-screen devices.
Mr. Jones, who has worked at Coke since 1986, had been expected to leave his post as Steven J. Heyer, Coke's new president and chief operating officer, overhauled the management team.
The company says the two operating overhauls cost $5.8 million and resulted in annual savings of $100 million.
Although, strictly speaking, Virgin Galactic is not breaking any government monopoly in the suborbital area, since other firms already fly unmanned vehicles this way, its aim is to overhaul the field by operating more frequent services at lower cost.
All three practices were classified as inadequate by CQC inspectors and each now has six months in which to dramatically overhaul how they operate or face being closed.
When Microsoft released Windows Phone, a completely overhauled version of its operating system for smartphones, in early 2010, many tech critics raved about the software.
Even phones with the chips and memory to handle upgrades often do not receive them because of the support costs: handset-makers and carriers prefer to have consumers buy new phones than to provide technical support for old or outdated models.Most phones cannot directly download Google's regular feature, bug and security updates, let alone overhauled versions of the operating system.
McNeil closed its Fort Washington, Pa., manufacturing plant to overhaul it, and is now operating under a consent decree with federal regulators.
Lacob reportedly overhauled the way the team operates, structuring it to more closely resemble the open-source ethos of the tech world rather than the more dictatorial approach allegedly endemic among professional-sports teams.
EADS is in the midst of a major overhaul intended to cut operating costs at Airbus.
